Life...or something like it

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

You won't believe me but...

As I sit here typing this my house is totally and completely...silent. Well except for the sound of my keyboard. The bigger three are at school, Owen is at a friends and the daycare kiddos are asleep! Wow...I don't quite know what to do with myself! Oh, I know BLOG! So I've had several people ask me if things are better now that the kids are in school. I always respond with a great big YES and a little no. We are still trying to get into the hang of things and adjust to the new schedule. I thought I'd have it all figured out but I don't think I'll know what our real schedule feels like until next week when Owen starts school. Over all I have way less messes to clean up and way less stress during the day. Ian gets up and gets started early though, I think he has to fit as much in as he can before he leaves. Today it was the mustard (again, sheesh, what is with the mustard?) the caramel ice cream topping and the lemon juice. Sticky, stinky and just plain messy! Everyone seems to be adjusting to their new schools nicely. Emilia is making friends, Matthais is getting to class on time and Ian, well, Ian is still Ian but his teacher LOVES him! What a difference that makes! I am *trying* to get caught up on the disaster that summer left behind. This is no easy task but I take it one day at a time. As for today...I'm going to go enjoy the silence!

Friday, August 27, 2010

Proud mommy moments

Seriously, how big is he?? Without any warning or practicing or having mom run along side him on the road, Owen announced this morning he can ride a bike. I was wondering what was in store for me as I came out to watch him. "Maybe he'll push off and coast" I think, "maybe he'll Flinstone it" I think. Nope. He hopped on and peddled away. I am a very proud mommy!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

First day of school for the other two

Well, it's the day I've waited for all summer! They are back at school! Well, actually it will be tomorrow before the three oldest are back and next week before Owen starts but I'll take what I can get! I had this great plan this morning...I was going to get Ian on the bus at 8:40 (the pick-up time) take Misty to school and be back by 9:00 to walk Millie to school. Ya, right. Ian's bus never showed. Well, actually it finally came at 9:15 long after I had already taken him. Misty was almost late and Millie walked to school by herself. So sad. I feel like a loser mom sending her that way but I didn't know what else to do! I talked to the principal at Ian's school about the bus and she said she'd take care of it so hopefully it will be on time tomorrow. I'm really excited about this year especially for Ian. I hope and pray this is just what he needs! I am so excited school is back in session,I finally feel like I can BREATHE! but, I have hours of housework to catch up on...sigh. The good news is that what I clean will actually stay clean for more than 5 minutes Yay!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Can you say "trip to the emergency room"

I think this has that written all over it!

Birthday Bash 2010

This post is kinda late. I had it all typed out and all the pictures loaded and I don't know where it disappeared to. So, here is the story. I had an opportunity to borrow some of those big, blow up water slides for Millie's birthday. She had originally wanted to go roller skating but I talked her into a water party instead. With Owen's birthday only days after hers I couldn't let her have a party and not him so I decided to combined party. I made invitations and put them in water balloons so the kids had to pop them to get the invitation. It was lots of fun. Two days before the party I watched the news and much to my dismay the forecast was for rain. Great. It was suppose to rain all day Wednesday and Thursday but Wednesday wasn't too bad so I crossed my fingers. Early Thursday Becca and Amanda came and set up the water slides. The kids were so excited and couldn't wait until 1:00 when the party would begin. At 12:30 this was the sight...

Dark clouds, wind, thunder, lightening, and rain. Time to come up with plan B. I had 20 kids invited ages 4-8, both boys and girls. What could we do to entertain them all for 2 hours? I quickly got on the computer and came up with a scavenger hunt.

It was a little stressful having that many bodies running through my tiny house but the kids seemed to have a good time.
We did cake and ice cream and opened presents.

And then, HALLELUJAH! The sun came out so I sent them all out for some water fun!

I think they all had a lot of fun! Here is the whole load of them, minus a few who refused to get in the picture

Happy Birthday Emilia and Owen, I hope your day was wonderful!

First day of 7th grade

Could it really be possible? I'm kinda freaking out. There is just something about jr. high. Not quite the innocence of elementary school, not quite the maturity of high school. I had fabulous middle school experiences (I went to a 7th, 8th grade middle school) but I know that is not the case with all kids. I just hope Matthais's confidence will help him. I just hope he doesn't take it to the point of cocky, ya know what I mean? Anyway, I forgot to ask him if he had his schedule so now I'm gonna stress all day about that. What if he doesn't know anyone in any of his classes? What if he gets lost? does he know where the lunchroom is? What if he doesn't know what bus to get on at the end of the day? Sigh...it's going to be a long, worry-filled day. Good thing I have something to take my mind off of things..